PESHAWAR: A barber’s shop was destroyed in a bomb blast in the jurisdiction of Pishtakhara Police Station late on Friday, police said. The police said the bomb went off in the salon situated in the Nodeh Bala area at around 3am. There were no casualties in the blast. The police cordoned off the areas after […]
MINGORA: With large-scale violence breaking out in the troubled Swat Valley, militants on Thursday shot dead three relatives of a PPP leader and set on fire a four-storey motel of the Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) in Malam Jabba, the country’s only ski resort. Locals said the militants attacked the home of Abdul Kabir, brother […]
RAWALPINDI, June 25: The Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench here on Wednesday dismissed an appeal of the Punjab government seeking cancellation of post-arrest bail granted by an anti-terrorism court to a woman allegedly involved in the twin suicide attacks on the convoy of President Pervez Musharraf in 2003. A division bench, comprising Justice Maulvi […]
ISLAMABAD (June 25 2008): Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs) will help people especially poor and needy to benefit from the government’s initiatives like micro-financing, Benazir Stipend Programme, Hepatitis programme and other socio-economic, health, and education initiatives. He was addressing the inauguration ceremony of free of charge […]
PESHAWAR, June 24: The security situation in Peshawar is grim. Officials in the home department, who evaluate the situation on an almost daily basis, believe declaring a state of red alert is now only a matter of time. With militants knocking at the gates of the capital of the NWFP, even the more circumspect government […]
RIYADH: The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), a league of 57 Muslim nations, said on Monday that a Danish court’s rejection of a lawsuit against a newspaper for printing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) could provoke “Islamophobia”. The High Court for western Denmark on Thursday rejected a lawsuit against Jyllands-Posten, the newspaper that […]
PESHAWAR: Though peace agreements between the government and militants are not ideal they are positive and should be honoured, NWFP Environment Minister, who is also a key member of peace talks committee, Wajid Ali Khan said on Monday. “The NWFP government is trying its best to honour peace agreements with Swat militants. If these agreements […]
HYDERABAD, June 22: Sindh Minister for Culture and Tourism Sassui Palijo has said that instructions have been issued for compiling a Sindhi encyclopaedia and urged Sindhi writers, scholars and intellectuals to cooperate with the provincial government in this huge project. She was speaking at an educational conference organised by the Sindhi Language Authority here on […]
MARDAN: A bomb blast damaged the walls of Taj Cinema located in Taj Bazaar here late Sunday. However, no casualty was reported. Officials said two locally made bombs exploded at 10 pm. District Police Officer Tahir Khan told The News that the officials had warned the cinema management a week ago about the possibility of […]
KARACHI, June 21: As the city government allows law-enforcement and intelligence agencies access to its recently-established command and control system, which monitors signal-free corridors I and II, the police authorities have begun installing cameras separately, mainly in the ‘red zones’ of the metropolis, for video surveillance. More than 150 cameras being installed in southern parts […]
ISLAMABAD: The Managing Director of Pakistan Television, Yousuf Baig Mirza, was sacked on Saturday as known TV anchor Dr Shahid Masood took over as the new chairman of the corporation. The Establishment Division on Saturday issued two letters, one terminating the contract of Mirza and the other giving additional charge of the MD to the […]
Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior A. Rehman Malik Saturday announced to issue Computerized National Identity Cards (CNICs) free of cost to citizens across the country with effect from June 24, 2008, says a press release. The announcement is being made as per prime minister’s directive. All Nadra Swift Registration Centres (NSRCs) and Mobile […]
ISLAMABAD: A judge sentenced a man to death here on Wednesday on charges of blasphemy, a court official said. The trial was held in Sialkot after the police arrested him in a nearby village. Falk Sher, a court administrator, said Judge Shoaib Ahmad Roomi also sentenced Shafeeq Latif to life in prison and fined Rs […]
cheque of Rs1 million was handed over on Monday by Sindh Minister for Women’s Development, Tauqir Fatima Bhutto, to the DIG Jails Karachi. The money will be used for the release of women and children who are serving additional terms due to the non-payment of fines. Presiding over a meeting of the Prisoners Aid Committee, […]
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